lots of people still in the time warner a arena. this was a night for gathering and souvenirs, a little bit of confetti, things people want to take home from the 2012 convention. we are going to be here until 12:15 eastern time. everybody on my crew got nervous when i said 1:15. let's take our next call from kevin. >> i want to thank c-span for a wonderful production of this convention. i take a look at this from the standpoint of politics. i think the convention delivered a very smooth, very consistent message triggered the president did a wonderful job as far as redefining hope and change tonight, reinvigorating those terms, but i am also at times looking at this realistically beyond this convention and that of the republicans last week. this will be a hard-fought election. it will be a close election, and i think the real problems lie not with this institution, the presidency, but the failure of another institution, which the democratic party to emphasize very well, and that is congress. they are a total abject failure, and repub